Secret Life
$43.27
- Hardcover
184 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2021
Summary
To the west: trees. To the east: a mall. North: fast food. South: darkness. And at the centre is The Building, an office building wherein several factions vie for dominance. Inside, the walls are infiltrated with vines, a mischief of mice learn to speak English, and something eerie happens once a month on the fifth floor.
In Secret Life, Theo Ellsworth uses a deep-layered style to interpret Nebula award-winning author Jeff VanderMeer’s short story. What emerges is a mind-bend…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770464032 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770464034 |
| Author: | Jeff VanderMeer, Theo Ellsworth |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 580g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 222mm |
| Audience Age: | 16 |
Critics Review
With his meticulously drawn, uncanny comics, Ellsworth proves a fitting and unnerving match to mine this eerie, parable-like short story by VanderMeer… This bizarre, fantastical vision will charm art comics and surrealist lit fans alike. Publishers Weekly. From the cover alone, it’s clear Ellsworth s visuals are unique, striking, and surreal… Corporate culture, capitalism/consumption, social hierarchies, and domination notwithstanding, only a vine flourishes here. Booklist. In this mind-bending narrative, all kinds of weird things are happening: mice can speak English while lower-caste workers on the second floor develop their own language… It s an allegory about work life like no other. NOW Magazine
Jeff VanderMeer
Theo Ellsworth is a self-taught artist living in Montana. His previously published comics include Capacity, The Understanding Monster, Sleeper Car, and An Exorcism. The New York Times once called his work, “Imagination at firehose intensity”. He has been the recipient of the Lynd Ward Honor Book Prize and an Artist Innovation Award. He loves creative collaboration, cooking, and making family folk art with his kids. He is constantly making invisible performance art in his head that no one will ever see.
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